Norbert Kraft (born 21 August 1950) is a

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, music teacher, producer and arranger.

Life

Born in

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, Kraft's family emigrated to Canada in 1954. He studied at the

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at Toronto with Carl van Feggelen and later with John Mills and Aaron Shearer. An international performer, Kraft has also recorded and (together with his wife Bonnie Silver, who is also a pianist and harpsichordist) produced many albums on the

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label. In 1994, he launched the label's Guitar Collection as producer and artistic director. Kraft specializes in solo guitar pieces from the 17th to 20th centuries as well as concerto repertoire. He has published many arrangements and transcriptions of baroque and later solo and chamber music, including works for guitar and harpsichord. He has compiled and edited a series of graded technical exercises and repertoire for the guitar. These were published in 1978 as "Classical Guitar Editions" and were adopted as official curriculum by the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). He is also a composer for classical guitar. He has served on the faculties of

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and the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Awards

*Grand Prize in the 1975 Canadian CBC Radio Competition *1985

Andrés Segovia Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987), was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of Segovia's students. Segovia ...

International Guitar Competition (the first North American to do so) *Gramophone Magazine "Critic's Choice for 1989" *Classic CD Magazine "Favourite CD of the Year"

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External links

Article at the Canadian EncyclopediaSome photos of LP covers
(Oviatt Library Digital Collections) ;Naxos Recordings
Naxos Recording Sessions
- Videos
The Bach recordings (2011)
- Norbert Kraft recording

Ricardo Gallén Ricardo Jesús Gallén García (12 March 1972), is a Spanish classical guitarist who has been active since the mid-1990s. He is currently a professor of guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, Germany. Career Gallén was born ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kraft, Norbert 1950 births Canadian classical guitarists Canadian male guitarists Living people Manhattan School of Music faculty Academic staff of The Royal Conservatory of Music Musicians from Linz

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